Centre for Research in Literature Linguistics and Culture

Critical Poetics Research Group

The Critical Poetics Research Group is interdisciplinary in focus and stimulates debate, collaboration and innovation among scholars and practitioners whose work is concerned with creative and critical theory and practice. It explores texts and theoretical applications to texts that are engendered by unconventional, unexpected, and cross-disciplinary approaches.

Language, Identities and Institutions Research Group

These researchers bring analytical skills and insights drawn from critical journalism studies, sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, critical stylistics, cultural studies and political communication to bear on a wide range of institutions and social practices. Examples of current research include raising the awareness of regional language variation, the mapping and preservation of threatened language varieties and the application of language analysis to improve the delivery of justice in court.

Media and Film Cultures Research Group

The Media and Film Cultures Research Group undertakes research focussed on British and European cinema and politics, global queer cinema and international LGBTQ documentary, Japanese and Korean film and television, often focusing on questions of gender, sexuality and sexist abuse as well as migrants’ experiences and empowerment and the roles of journalism and democracy.

Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group

The Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group advances critical thought relating to colonialism, neo-colonialism, postcolonialism and globalisation. It works with activist and refugee groups, publishers, writers’ agencies and literary and cultural organisations to create platforms for exploring diverse cultural voices and texts that challenge postcolonial and global forms of marginalisation and exclusion.

Periodicals and Print Cultures Research Group

The Periodicals and Print Cultures Research Group develops research on the study of modern periodicals and print culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It is concerned with the material culture of periodicals, books, newspapers, pamphlets, comics, zines and other forms of print ephemera as well as with literary histories and the digital manifestations of these objects and artefacts.